The Gramblinite
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
President of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism visited Grambling State University Monday. On a one-day visit, Andrew Leckey spoke to a carpet laid and window vented room with over 30 eager students from The Department of Mass Communication […]
Vernon L. Farmer, professor of education, and Evelyn Shepherd-Wynn, assistant professor of English, recently published a multivolume book about the experiences, struggles and successes of historical and contemporary Black American pioneers. In Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers, the life stories and career histories of 250 historical […]
Grambling graduates Jon Hawkins and Ken Lear has chosen to give back to the Department of Engineering Technology when the department established the “DET Wall of Fame”. The purpose of the “Wall” is to display alums and others who make a contribution to the department for the proposed C.A. Wiley […]
Vernon Cheek, a 1991 graduate of Grambling State University, will speak to mass communication students on Monday, Oct. 22 from 9:00 a.m. until 11 a.m. in Room 100 of the Washington-Johnson Complex. Cheek is in his third year in publicity with CBS Television Network in Los Angeles, Calif. He […]
The Grambling State University West Campus Annex had strong historic ties to the university and community even before it was given to GSU on Aug. 1. West Campus Annex was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, the land for which came from local black farmers. […]
Two teams entered the Cotton Bowl with winless records and one team walked out with a win. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the Tigers (0-5). Saturday, when the game clock read 0:00, with a final score of 31-14, Grambling dropped its fifth consecutive game to the Prairie View Panthers (1-5) in the […]
The director of the Grambling State University Orchesis Dance Company, who has more than 25 years of global dance experience, has been suspended until further notice. Sources say that both Dianne Maroney-Grigsby and her assistant director Teresa Jacobs were temporarily removed from the company last week by the institution, because of two letters to university […]
The Arcadia Women Association (AWA) continues to seek ways to help and uplift communities. Recently, the organization made a commitment to Grambling State University to endow a scholarship. GSU was chosen because each member has a personal connection to the university. Many of the members of AWA, either attended, […]
The National Association of Black Accountants held its annual Pre-Conference Workshop at Grambling State University on Saturday in the Jacob T. Stewart Building. NABA partnered with corporate sponsor Deloitte to provide workshops designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge to ensure their success at the regional conference. Attendees of […]
Pastor O. W. Billups Jr. is the fall revival speaker at Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Grambling. The revival began on Monday and ends tonight with the 7 o’clock service. Billups is also the pastor of Mt. Oliver Baptist Church of Monroe. In his message entitled “Conditions for Answered Prayers,” […]